Graduand vs Null - What's the difference?
graduand | null |
(senseid)(British, Canadian) A student who has completed the requirements for, but has not yet been awarded, a particular degree.
* 2005, Mike Amos, Proud Return of the Pigeon Boy, Northern Echo (Darlington, UK); Jul 14, 2005.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between graduand and null
is that graduand is (senseid)(british|canadian) a student who has completed the requirements for, but has not yet been awarded, a particular degree while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.graduand
English
Noun
(en noun)graduand, A.Word.A.Day
- In order to add jollity to the proceedings, said the dean, each graduand would find beneath his seat a little tub of bubbles, complete with mortar board cap.
Usage notes
A rather specialized term: since degrees are generally awarded shortly after requirements have been completed, this is generally a very short-term status (weeks to months), quickly changing to graduate. Primarily used to refer to students at graduation ceremonies (as in the quote above), in Britain and similar Commonwealth school systems (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Namibia, Singapore). It has important legal implications for certain disciplines; for example, medical graduands are able to be registered to practise, and commence work as junior medical officers, before officially graduating at a ceremony which may occur some six months later. In the US, the general term student is generally used instead.Coordinate terms
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null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.